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Warren.io: Providing Cloud Platform Power Suits to Small Providers!

raindog308
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Sep 02, 2022
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We'd like to welcome Warren.io, a company offering an interesting product in the cloud platform space. In a nutshell (see the one pager), they offer a way for smaller players to compete with big public clouds.  You may think that's an impossible task, but there are a significant number of service providers who have specialized needs.  They may want significant infrastructure hand-holding or design help, or they may have u...

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Warren.io: Providing Cloud Platform Power Suits to Small Providers!

Porkbun Virtual Office Tour -- Alex, Eddie, and Andy

Not_Oles
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Sep 01, 2022
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Hello from New York City and Mexico! Here is another fun guest article contributed by Eddie Barksdale from Porkbun. Low End Box and @Not_Oles appreciate this personalized look inside the home offices...

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Porkbun Virtual Office Tour -- Alex, Eddie, and Andy

RamNode Raises Prices on DDoS Protected IPs 66% to $5/mo

raindog308
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Sep 01, 2022
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If you go back seven or eight years and asked me to recommend a LEB provider, I would have asked you some basics and then might very well have recommended RamNode. Back in the day, RamNode had a nice...

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RamNode Raises Prices on DDoS Protected IPs 66% to $5/mo

You Can Now License Windows Server on a Per-Virtual-Core Basis

raindog308
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Aug 30, 2022
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One of the headaches in cloud environments is licensing for proprietary software, and no one is more of a headache on this point than Microsoft. If you want to offer Windows as a provider, you need to...

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You Can Now License Windows Server on a Per-Virtual-Core Basis

This Week's Initial Ransomware Offering (IRO) Calendar

raindog308
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Aug 29, 2022
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Check out this sentence: "For the author, this business model enables them to scale their earnings from their software with less risk." I slightly modified the original, but we're not talking about a...

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This Week's Initial Ransomware Offering (IRO) Calendar

Hazi.ro: 2 Cores, 4GB RAM, You Choose the Disk: €7.49/Month!

raindog308
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Aug 28, 2022
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I was running some errands this morning and passed an Orthodox church.  Out front was a colorful tri-color banner declaring that next weekend is the Romanian Folk & Food Festival here in Portland....

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Hazi.ro: 2 Cores, 4GB RAM, You Choose the Disk: €7.49/Month!

Do you Trust Trustpilot?

raindog308
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Aug 28, 2022
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Readers, do you use Trustpilot? Providers, do you live and die by it? For those unfamiliar, Trustpilot is a sort of "Yelp of everything". They offer an aggregation of reviews on nearly everything, add...

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Do you Trust Trustpilot?

LowEndBox Won't Be Posting Martin Shkreli's Offers

raindog308
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Aug 27, 2022
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Martin Shkreli has been released from prison. You may remember him as "pharma bro", who made a killing by exploiting an interesting aspect of the pharmaceutical market.  He realized that there are sev...

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LowEndBox Won't Be Posting Martin Shkreli's Offers

LastPass Releases Its Security Incident for 2022

raindog308
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Aug 26, 2022
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Sometimes you see stuff in the media and wonder if it's really news.  Some celebrity broke up with some other celebrity.  Some tech company released version X.Y which is .0001% better.  LastPass was h...

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LastPass Releases Its Security Incident for 2022

Afghanistan Shutters Domestic Crypto Exchanges

raindog308
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Aug 25, 2022
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Afghanistan launched a crackdown on crypto exchanges, closing at least sixteen such exchanges in the last week. According to Sayed Shan Sa'adat, an Afghanistani security official: "[Afghanistan's cent...

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Afghanistan Shutters Domestic Crypto Exchanges

Follow us! Like us! Watch us! Gaze at us! Smell us!

raindog308
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Aug 24, 2022
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Okay, that last one is not really possible.  Fortunately for the human race, a social network based on our sense of smell has not been developed (though humans have tried to invent smell-transmission...

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Follow us! Like us! Watch us! Gaze at us! Smell us!

DigitalOcean to Acquire Cloudways for $350 Million

raindog308
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Aug 23, 2022
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DigitalOcean revealed today that they're tired of Cloudways fronting their panel, so they're going to buy them for $350 million. Cloudways has a fantastic business model: they buy a VM for $6, put the...

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DigitalOcean to Acquire Cloudways for $350 Million

More Vulnerabilities, Poorer Patches: TrendMicro Is Bummed

raindog308
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Aug 18, 2022
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Presenting at the Black Hat USA conference this week, Trend Micro had an interesting comment: Over the last few years, we’ve noticed a disturbing trend – a decrease in patch quality and a reduction in...

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More Vulnerabilities, Poorer Patches: TrendMicro Is Bummed

Add Some Fun to Your Day With Our Daily Pics!

raindog308
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Aug 17, 2022
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There's a small scrappy start-up company that's emerging in the web space. They've been posting a different themed picture on their main service page every day, celebrating holidays, unofficial rememb...

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Add Some Fun to Your Day With Our Daily Pics!

MailChimp Security Breach. Yes, Again.

raindog308
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Aug 15, 2022
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MailChimp revealed they've had a security breach: "In response to a recent attack targeting Mailchimp’s crypto-related users, we’ve taken proactive measures to temporarily suspend account access for a...

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MailChimp Security Breach. Yes, Again.

Flashback: FreeVPs.us, the Free VPS Forum

raindog308
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Aug 14, 2022
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Just want a free VPS? Yes, there are actually legitimate ways to get a free VPS.  Interested in a bit of LowEndLore s we look back at a famous community landmark that has left the scene?  Read on! At...

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Flashback: FreeVPs.us, the Free VPS Forum

Verisign Adds 7% to .com Prices...Forever

raindog308
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Aug 11, 2022
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Read 'em and weep, folks.  That smooth 7% curve is what Verisign has planned for .com owners.  As DomainNameAPI.com notes: Verisign, the registrar of the .COM domain extension, on 1 September 2021 inc...

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Verisign Adds 7% to .com Prices...Forever

"Creepy" Isn't What You Want in an Emoji, Microsoft

raindog308
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Aug 10, 2022
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Earlier this summer, Microsoft released new emojis for their platforms.  If you're a corporate slave staring at Teams all day, there is a palette of these smiling faces to inject some humanity into yo...

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Would You Play Russian Roulette with a UUID?

raindog308
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Aug 09, 2022
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I was explaining UUIDs to a junior colleague today, who was hung up on the idea of probabilities, and it lead to an interesting viewpoint. A UUID is a Universal Unique IDentifier.  They're used all ov...

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Would You Play Russian Roulette with a UUID?

Those Spam Texts Are Coming From Twilio: They've Been Hacked

raindog308
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Aug 08, 2022
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Twilio has suffered a data breach and the attackers "used the stolen credentials to gain access to some of our internal systems". Twilio is a messaging platform with a nice API.  I used it last year t...

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Those Spam Texts Are Coming From Twilio: They've Been Hacked

WARNING: PikaPods are Addictive!

raindog308
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Aug 07, 2022
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I've been wanting to give PikaPods a spin ever since we interviewed their founder.  The one-sentence summary of PikaPods is: packaged apps on individual containers and you pay by the app. I wanted to...

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WARNING: PikaPods are Addictive!

Visa/MC Cuts off PornHub Due to Child Pornography

raindog308
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Aug 07, 2022
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Both Visa and MasterCard cut off payment processing for TrafficJunky, the advertising arm of MindGeek, the proprietor of pornography site PornHub.  There is a pending lawsuit which claims that Visa "k...

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Visa/MC Cuts off PornHub Due to Child Pornography

OVH Chops Network Promise in Half, So Customer Returns 30 Servers

raindog308
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Aug 06, 2022
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We had an interesting story play out on LowEndTalk recently about OVH and their game server offering. OVH has really had a powerful offering in this space.  Because of their size and efficiency and ma...

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OVH Chops Network Promise in Half, So Customer Returns 30 Servers

DDoS Attacks are 100 Times Worse Compared to Last Year

raindog308
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Aug 05, 2022
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According to a recent Kaspersky report, DDoS attacks have gotten much worse over the last 12 months. According to the report: The average duration of a DDoS attack in Q2 was about 3000 minutes (roughl...

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DDoS Attacks are 100 Times Worse Compared to Last Year

LowEndBox is on Instagram and TikTok!

Jon Biloh
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Aug 05, 2022
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A few weeks ago we asked our visitors to vote on which social media platform we should add to LowEndBox. Since we published the Poll in July, LowEndBox has added both TikTok and Instagram to our socia...

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LowEndBox is on Instagram and TikTok!

Can You Lend Apple and Meta Some Cash? They're Asking

raindog308
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Aug 04, 2022
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News this week broke that both Apple and Meta are both taking out huge loans. Apple is borrowing $5.5 billion, and Meta is borrowing $10 billion.  Both are for "general corporate purposes, share repur...

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Can You Lend Apple and Meta Some Cash? They're Asking

VirMach Teeters at the Edge

raindog308
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Aug 04, 2022
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Interesting discussion on LowEndTalk over the last week about Virmach, a provider that has been sharing offers with our community for quite a while. Several users are reporting issues.  Their Looking...

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VirMach Teeters at the Edge

Don't Tell Jon I Shared This Code With You

raindog308
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Aug 03, 2022
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We put a video on TikTok with a giveaway bonus code.  Naturally, as LowEndBox management surveys their enterprise from their lofty corporate jets, they want to put that code only on TikTok so later th...

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Don't Tell Jon I Shared This Code With You
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